Exactly nine years ago I published my very first post here at SQLBlog.com titled SSIS Design Pattern – Incremental Loads.
At the time I wrote this post, the last page of my blog dashboard appeared as shown in the screenshot above. It shows the Incremental Loads Design Pattern post has received over 230,000 views in the past nine years. That’s about 2,000 views per month or about 71 views per day. For nine years. Wow.
I asked my friend Adam Machanic (Blog | @AdamMachanic) about the total number of views for all the blog posts on my blog. Adam tells me we’ve recorded 7,742,031 direct views over the past nine years; or over 70,000 views per month. That’s not all of the views, either – that’s just the stuff he can measure directly. Wow!
In marketing, this is called a long tail. Once the post is written and posted, people can access it and read it for years. I’m a farmer and writing a blog post is like planting a tomato plant (I love fresh tomatoes – they are so full of taste right off the vine!) and having it continue to produce fruit for years without any tending.
You should start a blog. I wrote a couple posts about getting started years ago. I hope they encourage you to begin a blog today.
I hope you enjoy what you’ve read here for the past nine years. I look forward to nine more years of blogging, Lord willing!
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That’s really impressive, Andy. Congrats on your nine year blogging anniversary. After just one year of blogging, this is encouraging for me to see.
Thanks for all the great posts!
Yep, have found exactly the same on sqlblog.com. The other one that I continue to be amazed by is videos on channel9.msdn.com. Older videos endlessly watched.
And congrats for the blogging anniversary Andy !
Congrats Andy, always enjoy your posts. Your post reminds me that I need to blog much more than I have recently which is almost nothing. I just looked back and on the 26th of July it will be my 10th anniversary blogging here as well. Man that makes me feel so old :).
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